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subpoena I had to appear before the appropriate congressional committee and I believe I appeared first before one of the subcommittees of the Commerce Committee. And I steadfastly refused throughout that hearing to answer any questions that would in any way indicate that we were revealing inside information about the broadcast. This angered the members of Congress that were on that committee, a couple of whom had been friends. It then went to the larger committee of the Commerce Committee which had to do with Communications, and I lost -- had to go through the same routine there -- and lost before that committee. By losing, I mean the vote was to cite me for contempt of Congress. Then it went to the full committee, which I guess was a committee -- or is a committee -- of about thirty- five, and I lost by about the same vote there that I lost by in the subcommittees. And then it went to the Floor of the House for -- I've forgotten the exact nomenclature, but at any rate, it was the implementation of the citation for contempt. Which meant that the Speaker of the House had to go to the Federal Court and make the charge and then the Solicitor General, I think, represented the Congress before the judge, and I could be, in effect, thrown in jail, for not giving the information that was requested.

It was a harrowing experience only because it interrupted my life as far as CBS was concerned. I gave an enormous amount of time to fighting that case. I had excellent support from our affiliates who had -- some of them had relations with members of Congress that allowed them to take a position and try to persuade Congress that I didn't deserve -- or that CBS didn't deserve the treatment that was about to be given to it. The citation was ultimately narrowed. At first they wanted everything, including the kitchen sink.

By that you mean all of the research that had gone into --